Safety hat-retainer.



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ANDRZEJ Ii SZUBSKI, on CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SAFETY HAnRETAINEB.

Application filed November 29, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDRZEJ II SZUBSKI, a subject of the "Czar-of Russia, residing at Cleveland, in the county of luyahoga and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Safety Hat-Retainers, of which the following is a specification. r

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in safety hat retainers.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an attachment fora hat adapted for retaining the same up on'the head of the wearer against accidental displacement, the device being readily releasable when found desirable.

A further object of the device is the provision of hair-engaging retaining means for hats adapted for arrangement in plurality upon the hat, the same being readily released simultaneously when desired by the wearer.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of hair-engaging resiliently mounted pins oppositely carried within a hat and provided with simultaneous releasing means positioned exteriorly of the hat.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which like characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hat pro vided with the present device.

Fig. 2 is a horizontally longitudinal sectional view through a portion thereof.

Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view taken through a side portion of the same.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the mechanism employed within the hat.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the mecha nism which is arranged within the hat at a point opposite to members shown in Fig. 4:, and includes the ext-eriorly positioned operating means, and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of the exterior-1y positioned operating means for the device.

The present device being serviceable for retaining any form of hat upon the head of the wearer, either a ladys; or gentlemans hat, the same is herein shown in connection with a hat having a crown 11, brim 12, and band 13, of the usual form.

Pins or retainers 14 and 15, of identical form are secured at opposite points within the crown- 11, by means of rectangular Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26', 1917.

Serial No. 134,177.

mounting plates 16 and 17, respectively, to which plates the said pins are pivoted as at 18, springs 19, being provided for the said pivotal connections for normally engaging the lower end portion 20 against the sweatband 21, of the hat. An operating means is provided for releasing the pins 1 1 and 15, operable selectively or collectively, such means broadly consisting of a plate 22 juxtaposed with respect to the plates 16, secured exteriorly of the crown 11, and having a yoke 23 for pivotinga tubularly curved lever 24 upon the said plate 22. Pullcords 25 and 26 are positioned through the lever 21, having their inner ends operatively attached to the upper shorter end portions 2 70f the pins 11 and 15, respectively.-

The inner end of the cord 25 being sooured to the pin 14, the said cord passes through a central perforation 28 of the plate 16, thence through an opening, not shown, in the crown 11, and outwardly through an openin 29 in the plate 22 where the said cord passes over a roller 30 mounted upon the plate 22 and thence through the lever 24, where the free end thereof may be readily grasped and pulled by the wearer of the hat for moving the pin 14 upon its pivot.

Similarly the inner end of the cord 26 is secured to the pin 15, the same passing over a roller 31 upon the plate 17, thence through a central perforation 32 of the said plate, thence passing through an arcuate conduit or tube 33, which connects the plates 16 and 17 together, the cord 26 then passing over a roller 34; upon the plate 16, and following the course of travel of the cord 25 through the plates 16 and 22, as well as the lever 21, finally terminating adjacent to the free end of the cord 25 or secured thereto if found desirable.

The complete operation'of the device will be apparent from this detailed description thereof, it being understood that when applying the hat to the head both of the cords 25 and 26 are pulled for moving the pins 1 1 and 15 away from the sweat-band 21 and allowing the engaging ends 20 of the said pins to be freely inserted in the hair, whereupon the cords are released and the springs 19 close the pins 14 and 15 in their engaging arrangement with the hair, retaining the hat upon the head. When desired to remove the hat the cords 25 and 26 are pulled and the pins being thereby released the hat is free to be removed. By grasping the free end of the lever 241- and the cords 25 and 26, a movement of the lever pivotally downwardly to position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, simultaneously releases both of the engaging pinsl and 15.

hat I claim as new is 1. A hat retainer comprising oppositely positioned plates secured Within a hat, said plates having central perforations therethrough, a spring-pressed hair-engaging pin pivoted upon each plate, an arcuate condult connecting said plates and contacting the intervening portion of the hat crown and terminating at a point adjacent the perforations of the plates, rollers upon the plates adjacent the perforations a pull cord for one of said pins extending over said rollers, through the perforations and the intermediate conduit and terminating exteriorly of the hat, and a similar pull cord attached to the end of the other pin extending through the adjacently positioned perforations and terminating exteriorly of the hat.

2. A hat retainer comprising oppositely positioned plates secured Within a hat, said plates having central perforations therethrough, a spring-pressed hair-engaging pin pivoted upon each plate, an areuate conduit connecting said plates and contacting the intervening portion of the hat croWn and terminating at a point adjacent the perforations of the plates, rollers upon the plates adjacent the perforations, a pull cord for one of said pins extending over said rollers, through the perforations and the intermediate conduit and terminating exteriorly of the hat, a similar pull cord attached to the end of the other pin extending through the adjaeently positioned perforations and terminating exteriorly of the hat, a plate exteriorly arranged upon the crown of the hat, and a tubular lever pivoted to the exterior plate and having both of the cordsv freely arranged therethrough.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ANDRZEJ II SZUBSKI.

Gcpies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

